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Quotation from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“the prince asserts that beauty will save the world!”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Ippolit Terentyev)

The Idiot, Part III, Chapter V, trans. Constance Garnett

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ippolit mockingly repeats a saying attributed to Myshkin before reading his written confession on the prince's birthday.

Citation: "the prince asserts that beauty will save the world!" — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Part III, Chapter V, trans. Constance Garnett. (id the-idiot-q8)

Portrait: Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, Public domain.

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